Llandinam Presbyterian Church with front enclosing railed wall is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 November 1996. Church.

Llandinam Presbyterian Church with front enclosing railed wall

WRENN ID
roaming-stair-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 November 1996
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Built in a late French Gothic style (contemporary description), of rockfaced stone with limestone ashlar dressings, slate roof and clayware crestings. West front has 4 grouped lancets with moulded heads and columns, and a circular window with radial tracery above. Below the windows is an arcaded string course between the corner buttresses, which terminate in small pyramidal spires. Below the string, four quatrefoil windows. Nave windows altered. Transepts, which are lower, have elaborate dentilled cornices and triple lancets to the gables containing elaborately leaded glass. The school has varied stone-dressed windows, one blind on the S, 4-light to the N, and shouldered headed lights to the E. The main entrance to the church has a moulded arch on shafted columns with stiff-leaf capitals, and a floriated cross in the tympanum, all within a gabled porch.

Nave of 3 bays, comprising a timber boarded roof on 2 moulded timber arches carried down to stilted wall stiff-leaf corbels. Moulded stone arches with huge fleurons, to side transepts. Walls plastered, with arches to low W windows.3 banks of raked seating divided by 2 aisles. High above the pulpit, a decorative arch above with blind 8-lobed wheel tracery and diapered tilework chamfered sill. The pulpit is of varnished pine, with canted panels and dog-tooth cornice. Iron supports to the handrail over 4 curved steps. The pews, also in varnished pine, have brass umbrella keeps and front book desk with perforated roundels. The organ, by P.Conacher of Huddersfield, reset in the S transept, has coloured and gilded pipes on a coved gallery, with openwork timber pendants.

The enclosing front wall has cast iron railings incorporating a cross symbol, set on a chamfered stone wall with ashlar terminal and gate piers, the piers having a 2-stage chamfered top and an iron lantern lighting the approach path.

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